Abstract

The current study used a vignette study design to determine if criminal justice students hold biases about human trafficking victims based on demographic variables (i.e. age, gender, immigrant status) and forms of trafficking (i.e. sex and labor trafficking). For this study, 190 criminal justice students were recruited. Due to stereotypes and biased views of who victims are (formed largely by biased media coverage), we hypothesized that criminal justice students would show higher mean scores on their ability to correctly identify, and lower mean scores on their willingness to help male, domestic, adult, and labor trafficked individuals as compared to female, foreign, young, and sex trafficked individuals. The results show that criminal justice students had lower mean scores on accuracy in identifying male and labor trafficked victims than female and sex trafficked victims, and lower mean scores in their willingness to help labor trafficked victims relative to sex trafficked victims. Implications and future directions are discussed.

摘要

目前的研究使用了一个小插曲研究设计来确定刑事司法学生是否基于人口变量（即年龄、性别、移民身份）和贩运形式（即性和劳动力贩运）对人口贩运受害者持有偏见。在这项研究中，招募了 190 名刑事司法学生。由于对受害者的刻板印象和偏见（主要由有偏见的媒体报道形成），我们假设刑事司法学生在正确识别能力上的平均得分较高，而在帮助男性、家庭成员、与女性、外国人、年轻人和性贩运者相比，成年人和劳工被贩运者。结果表明，刑事司法学生在识别男性和劳务贩运受害者方面的平均得分低于女性和性贩运受害者，并且相对于性贩运受害者，他们帮助劳务被贩运受害者的意愿平均得分较低。讨论了影响和未来的方向。